Unexpected Love

Chapter 23- Greyson

I wish I could say that I wasn't focused today because my head was thinking about kissing Bailey. About my hands on her body, and my lips on her skin. Her eyes, her lips, just all of her.

I wished I was thinking about this morning. About how consumed and content I was. How much I wished I could wake up to her every day. I would spend the rest of my life with her if it meant waking up and getting to see her sprawled out on my chest. I wished that was what I was thinking about.

It wasn't no matter how much I wanted to think about her and how I was simply enchanted by the thought of her.

My head was a mess and it was for the wrong reasons.

I couldn't help but feel as if I was being watched when I left Bailey. The moment I stepped out of that door I felt like someone was lurking watching our entire exchange. I checked every corner and found nothing. Even when I went home and showered that was all I thought about; so I sent Gavin over there to check on her because something was nagging me.

He called me back, and I expected the worst. I was waiting to hear an I'm sorry she's gone or something happened. I haven't taken a single breath ever since I left her alone. I shouldn't have left her. I should have spent the rest of the day with her. Fuck work.

The moment he uttered she's fine she's working at the bakery was the first breath I took all day. I just wanted to get off of work and go see her, hold her.

I was in a dick mood the entire time I wasn't with her. Every second away from her felt like years. I just needed to see her, to touch her and fucking work was on my ass. The one day I needed to see her, the entire town decided to need firefighters.

I was needed more times today than I was in the last five years.

Mrs. Witherspoon seemed to light another kitchen on fire and this time it was the bed and breakfast she was staying at. Mr. James's cat was stuck in a tree for the hundredth time again which we needed to get out of the tree. I was always the one who went up the ladder to fetch the damn cat every time she ran up a tree while the rest of the dumb shits were on the ground laughing at me.

The one thing I said, I wouldn't do when I became a firefighter was get a cat out of a fucking tree and that was all I was doing now.

Would it be too early for me to retire?

"How are you doing up there buddy?" Crew yells from the ground.

"Shut the fuck up, Crew!" I yell back while all those dickhead laugh. I grab the white cat in my hands and take the ladder down.

Once I hit the ground Mr. James shouts a whole ton of thank yous at all of us, just as our radio buzzes with chatter.

Not again.

Why the fuck was this happening.

I know I said I wanted fires to happen but life's changed. I've changed I just wanted to be with my girl.

I had someone to live for.

"All units Meadows Forest has caught fire, I repeat all units report to Meadows Forest behind Elk street we need everybody on deck." Captain's voice shouts through the radio and all of us are in the truck before the radio goes quiet. We could practically see the smoke from miles away.

"You think kids started this fire?" Crew asks staring out the window.

"I'm not sure," I tell him.

"Last year was an accident they were camping," Jason yells eyes focused on the road.

"Unsupervised," Crew grumbles.

Last year a group of teenagers decided it would be a great idea to camp in the Meadows with no adult supervision and no camping gear. Dumb shits thought the woods did it all for them. They attempted to start a fire but they did it next to a bunch of leaves and paper and set the entire place to flames.